Information & Communications Technology Law

期刊简介：The last decade has seen the introduction of computers and information technology at many levels of human transaction. Information technology (IT) is now used for data collation, in daily commercial transactions like transfer of funds, conclusion of contract, and complex diagnostic purposes in fields such as law, medicine and transport. The use of IT has expanded rapidly with the introduction of multimedia and the Internet. Any new technology inevitably raises a number of questions ranging from the legal to the ethical and the social. Information & Communications Technology Law covers topics such as: the implications of IT for legal processes and legal decision-making and related ethical and social issues; the liability of programmers and expert system builders; computer misuse and related policing issues; intellectual property rights in algorithms, chips, databases, software etc; IT and competition law; data protection; freedom of information; the nature of privacy, legal controls in the dissemination of pornographic, racist and defamatory material on the Internet; network policing; regulation of the IT industry; problems of computer representation and the computational semantics of law; the role of visual or image-based legal ‘mental models’; general public policy and philosophical aspects of law and IT. The journal invites articles, national reports and case notes on the above and related topics. All submissions are independently refereed. The journal is published three times a year with one issue a year devoted to a particular theme. Forthcoming special issues will focus on intellectual property issues and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

【译文】过去十年，计算机和信息技术在人类交易的许多层面上得到了应用。信息技术 (IT) 现在用于数据整理、日常商业交易，如资金转移、合同签订以及法律、医学和运输等领域的复杂诊断目的。随着多媒体和互联网的引入，IT 的使用迅速扩大。任何新技术都不可避免地会引发一系列问题，从法律到道德和社会。信息和通信技术法涵盖的主题包括：信息技术对法律程序和法律决策的影响以及相关的道德和社会问题；程序员和专家系统构建者的责任；计算机滥用和相关警务问题；算法、芯片、数据库、软件等知识产权；信息技术和竞争法；数据保护；信息自由；隐私的性质、在互联网上传播色情、种族主义和诽谤性材料的法律控制；网络治安； IT行业的监管；计算机表示和法律计算语义问题；视觉或基于图像的法律“心理模型”的作用；一般公共政策以及法律和信息技术的哲学方面。该杂志邀请有关上述及相关主题的文章、国家报告和案例说明。所有提交的内容均经过独立评审。该杂志每年出版三期，每年出版一期专门讨论特定主题。即将出版的特刊将重点关注知识产权问题和替代性争议解决（ADR）。